Word: consumerization
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He was right. Next day, C.I.O. President Phil Murray sang out lustily because any controls had been dropped. Industry's top stentor, U.S. Chamber of Commerce President William K. Jackson, yelled because any had been kept. Lesser fry-packers, cattle and grocery men, the pro-and anti-control press...
Last week, as time ran out on the 30-day deadline, beer went up a penny a glass, coffee 10 to 13? a pound. Then OPA announced percentage increases on 20 more consumer items. Up went electric ranges (9%), box springs (12%), vacuum cleaners (7%), chinaware (7%), radios & phonographs (3...
Fundamentally, according to this book, the trouble with contemporary economic policy is its emphasis on short-run special problems and its refusal to consider long-run effects on the nation as a whole. In support of his thesis, the author cites labor's featherbedding, the gouge of "parity prices" for...
WASHINGTON-Price increases on a wide variety of consumer goods ranging from mechanical refrigerators to canned fruits were authorized by OPA tonight as the agency awaited final word from the decontrol board on its future food price policies.
The new price boosts, all passed on to the consumer, covered products outside the scope of President Truman's decontrol board, which must decide by tomorrow night whether controls are to be restored on meat, grain and dairy products, soy beans and cottonseed.